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A common European wild pigeon , so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees. Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species,
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A common European wild pigeon , so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees. Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species, as the Indian stockdove .
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - STOCKER
One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - STOCKWORK
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - PIGEON-HEARTED
Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl. - STOCK-BLIND
Blind as a stock; wholly blind. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - PIGEONHOLE
A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke. - ACCORDANCY
Accordance. Paley. - ACCORDANTLY
In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to. - DOMESTICATE
1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.